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If so, I must question the logic of sending Kouga off without telling a damn thing...again

I don't think so, it's not like Kouga actually knew he was going into Palaestra when he left. He (and everyone else, really) seemed to be worried mostly with Mars at the time. Although to be honest, that development up there was to be somewhat expected with all the hints we've been getting.

Spoiler for Not really "spoilers", but stuff about the original seasons of Saint Seiya:

It seems like the show now has some sort of tournament arc, and with all the hints they've been dropping that 'Athena is alright' when we all know that she isn't, the series seems to be structured in a way that is reminiscent of the original Saint Seiya. Tournament arc between Saints and then, if I'm not wrong, we might get some sort of confrontation between Gold Saints and Bronze Saints a la Sanctuary arc of the original? I definitely wouldn't mind, especially since it'd probably fuel the show with enough action sequences for Umakoshi and the rest of the team to work their magic!

I don't think so, it's not like Kouga actually knew he was going into Palaestra when he left. He (and everyone else, really) seemed to be worried mostly with Mars at the time. Although to be honest, that development up there was to be somewhat expected with all the hints we've been getting.

Spoiler for Not really "spoilers", but stuff about the original seasons of Saint Seiya:

It seems like the show now has some sort of tournament arc, and with all the hints they've been dropping that 'Athena is alright' when we all know that she isn't, the series seems to be structured in a way that is reminiscent of the original Saint Seiya. Tournament arc between Saints and then, if I'm not wrong, we might get some sort of confrontation between Gold Saints and Bronze Saints a la Sanctuary arc of the original? I definitely wouldn't mind, especially since it'd probably fuel the show with enough action sequences for Umakoshi and the rest of the team to work their magic!

Spoiler for Original show:

I'm pretty sure this is what is going to happen, the problem is that we were told there are only two active Gold Saint at the moment so they'll have to find other enemies as well... Maybe Silver Saints won't suck as much this time around?

Spoiler for HUGE future episode spoilers:

The pic posted revealed another big information about Iona: he has the power to control people through his words. It's probably something similar to the Genrou mao ken.

My guess is that Iona brainwashed everybody but Shaina in the sanctuary, and the weakened Athena was forced to escape and go into hiding with her, waiting for Seiya to come back or for Kouga to become stronger.

Ryuho is most likely aware of this (Shiryu obviously can't have been brainwashed by Iona since he can't hear anymore), that would explain why he was surprised Kouga knew Athena's real name even though something like that should be common knowledge among the Saints.

It could be that he was the Capricorn gold saint BEFORE Shura, retired his position due to old age and found a successor ie passed his position to Shura, and was invited to come back to take on his current job because everyone worthwhile/had knowledge died during the war with Hades.

It's completely possible that there was at least a couple more generations of saints between the twice previous holy war (one which Dohko, Shion fought in) and the last one (the one Seiya fought), after all those two wars were 243 years apart.....

It could be that he was the Capricorn gold saint BEFORE Shura, retired his position due to old age and found a successor ie passed his position to Shura, and was invited to come back to take on his current job because everyone worthwhile/had knowledge died during the war with Hades.

It's completely possible that there was at least a couple more generations of saints between the twice previous holy war (one which Dohko, Shion fought in) and the last one (the one Seiya fought), after all those two wars were 243 years apart.....

That's a good explanation. I think the general consensus is that Saints starts young but they also die young. Those who actually get to retire are probably in the minority. Ionia could be Shura's master's master given his age.

I expect this new generation of Saints to be weaker at the start compared to the previous generation. The previous generation where trained by the Gold and Silver saints while the new generation are being trained by scrubs of the past. I can't wait to see the how they stack up to Hyoga and Ikki.

Just how many bronze saints are there in this show? There must have been about a hundred kids shown in this ep. It's confirmed that the winner of the Saint fight is promoted to Silver. I think their cloth will stay exactly the same and only their rank in the Sainthood will change. Basically, Bronze Saints: trainees; Silver Saint: confirmed Saint. All cloths save for Gold have the same durability, the rank of a Saint depend solely on their abilities now. That would explain why Yuna is only Bronze even though she has the Eagle cloth.

The episode in itself was a bit boring. It felt more like watching Naruto than Saint Seiya. I hope the pace will pick up soon.

I kind of like the idea that everyone starts from bronze and get promoted to silver by merit and hard work, it nicely fills the hole of the original. As discussed before in the original it was a myth and it bugs me how if you are "just born into it" - as it seems highly unfair that you are born directly into a silver constellation automatically with no work and didn't have to earn the position. We know that everyone has a Gold constellation via their birthday so now everything seems to works out all nice and well with a proper ranking up system.

Now maybe they can incorporate the cloth stone technology(?) into the plot and say that those promoted to silver can also get an armor upgrade?

There's quite a huge number of Bronze Saints in ep5. I'm not sure if this is a mess-up by Toei, or does that no. include the anime Saints.

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Anyways, i don't want a Yuna X Ryuho.
No no ! o/

Didn't you hear that squee of happiness~

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I kind of like the idea that everyone starts from bronze and get promoted to silver by merit and hard work, it nicely fills the hole of the original. As discussed before in the original it was a myth and it bugs me how if you are "just born into it" - as it seems highly unfair that you are born directly into a silver constellation automatically with no work and didn't have to earn the position. We know that everyone has a Gold constellation via their birthday so now everything seems to works out all nice and well with a proper ranking up system.

Now maybe they can incorporate the cloth stone technology(?) into the plot and say that those promoted to silver can also get an armor upgrade?

I'm suspecting this to be the case.

The discovery of Cloth Stone/Elements seems to have made it a necessity to reforge the entire Cloth range (Gold/Silver/Bronze/Etc), and I wouldn't be surprised if they decided to screw off with the fixed numbers and materials for Silver/Bronze Cloths. ( considering that there were... what? 15 surviving Saints from the war with Hades? )

It would be a lot more flexible if outside of the fixed 12 for Gold, the title of Silver/Bronzes are determined by the quality of the Saint on its own.

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I didnt expect Souma to end his match where he was all beaten down. But he won the fight so it's good. Kouga confronts Eden earlier but Eden easily swift him away without directly touching him and paralyzing Kouga's body.
But we know that Kouga, Souma, and Ryuho is in the top 8 now since they won their fist match.
Also next episode will include the second rounds of the tournament where Kouga will face off Souma.

I don't really like this episode, I hope things will be better in the future. Well the next episode seems cool.

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Yeah the fight beetween Koga and Hooke was really bad. 1st, it's ugly and 2nd it's not epic at all. First fights of Saint Seiya was already impressive, due to the amazing soundtrack. Just look at Seiya vs Geki or Hyoga vs Ichi, it looks more epic than this .....!
I'm very disappointed about these first fights of this tournament.

But well, next episode with Yuna seems cool. I like this character so I hope her fight will be good.

We know why Haruto didn't participate to the Saint Fight of this year.

Eden, well we know it, he's strong.

And I hope that there will be more variety in Omega' soundtrack... Everytime it's the same and it's not epic at all.